This is a big move by the PA so the NHL probably figures that since they're making concessions they're going to keep making them. It's a negotiating tactic but further proves the point that it's all about winning and not about a compromise.

I have yet to understand the consternation over the unfulfilled years of existing contracts. The players are behaving as if they have already performed those years of bargained-for service and are simply waiting for the paychecks to arrive. Neither party has performed on those years and, as such, they are legally, rationally, and ethically open to negotiation, and I'm not even considering the 'subject to existing CBA' language in every contract.

jmh470 wrote:I have yet to understand the consternation over the unfulfilled years of existing contracts. The players are behaving as if they have already performed those years of bargained-for service and are simply waiting for the paychecks to arrive. Neither party has performed on those years and, as such, they are legally, rationally, and ethically open to negotiation, and I'm not even considering the 'subject to existing CBA' language in every contract.

Yeah, jmh. If they're taking too much money, then why wait 4-5 years for owners to receive their usable/workable share of revenue. How much loss for a player on a $10 million (to make it easy) contract are we talking about?

jmh470 wrote:I have yet to understand the consternation over the unfulfilled years of existing contracts. The players are behaving as if they have already performed those years of bargained-for service and are simply waiting for the paychecks to arrive. Neither party has performed on those years and, as such, they are legally, rationally, and ethically open to negotiation, and I'm not even considering the 'subject to existing CBA' language in every contract.

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That is an... er, interesting take on it.

If by 'interesting' you mean 'the proper legal interpretation of those contracts,' then it is, indeed, quite 'interesting.'

jmh470 wrote:I have yet to understand the consternation over the unfulfilled years of existing contracts. The players are behaving as if they have already performed those years of bargained-for service and are simply waiting for the paychecks to arrive. Neither party has performed on those years and, as such, they are legally, rationally, and ethically open to negotiation, and I'm not even considering the 'subject to existing CBA' language in every contract.

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That is an... er, interesting take on it.

I kinda look at it as, the owners\GM offered you this contract for this ammount of money for your services, they should atleast honor the contract they gave you. Imagine if you leased a car, even though you have got no prefoprmace out of that car 2 years down the road the car dealership wants to charge you more all of a sudden.

Don't get me wrong, i clearly think over all the players are asking for way to much in every other catogory, but as far as honoring the contracts (the owners\gms chose to give) the players, they should have to pay those promised dollars.

RisslingsMissingTeeth wrote:I read the article. From what I gather, the players have offered nothing new. If I'm Daly, I'm taking this into the bathroom and using it for what it was intended for. What a waste of paper.

They've offered a lot of new things, here are a few:

They've agreed to the NHL's request for a 50/50 split of HRR starting in Year 1.

They requested $393-million in compensation through Make Whole. This is up from the $211-million the owners have offered, but down from the $592-million previously requested.

They've actually provided a full proposal including contracting issues, as opposed to just some financials.

They rejected many of the NHL's "secondary" proposals, but have countered with their own.

There won't be a true 50/50 split of HRR over the life of this CBA because of the Make Whole provision, so anyone looking for that is going to be sorely disappointed. They key to the financial side of this is that the NHLPA has agreed to a 50/50 split of HRR and that sets the framework for the any new CBAs moving forward.

As has been noted, the NHL and NHLPA's offers - financially - are only $182-million apart. That amounts to a little over $1.5-million per team per year over the four-year course of the Make Whole provision.

jmh470 wrote:I have yet to understand the consternation over the unfulfilled years of existing contracts. The players are behaving as if they have already performed those years of bargained-for service and are simply waiting for the paychecks to arrive. Neither party has performed on those years and, as such, they are legally, rationally, and ethically open to negotiation, and I'm not even considering the 'subject to existing CBA' language in every contract.

*insert 'deal with it' .gif*

That is an... er, interesting take on it.

If by 'interesting' you mean 'the proper legal interpretation of those contracts,' then it is, indeed, quite 'interesting.'

mikey287 wrote:I'm sure the pro-union propagandists will make a big stink about the NHL's response (before fully hearing their position) but the owners have bent already...this is the first time the players have come to the table with anything remotely reasonable. I just got back from work, so I'm just now digesting some of this issue, but I see that a lot of the PA's proposals involve flat dollars...meaning that it is no longer linked to revenues...I don't understand how that can be accepted by the owners. We just lost an entire season over that issue, now we're gonna lose another one because the terrorist wants to undo it...? Come on...

I'll await the NHL's response...but the PA's offer, AIUI, seems to take its sweet time getting down to 50/50, the other sports leagues are there and have been there...not in 2017...

Isn't it a tad ridiculous to call Fehr a "terrorist"?

Nope. Not the first time and not the last either in this thread I'm sure.

He doesn't even want to bend this far...it's the people under him that are getting antsy...he wants to destroy it, like he destroyed baseball. Destruction, chaos, panic...sounds like terrorism.

Read over the proposal briefly. See some de-linkage, some softening of the cap as well plus a bunch of money that they may or may not have gotten anyhow (pending revenues/escrow) is a demand of theirs...players seem very interested in short term cashing in using big market teams to do the spending, little concern with the game itself and sustainability of markets to allow for overall growth which would benefit them much more over the long haul...

If my math is correct, all the players did today was put on a new spin on the same idea all over again.

At this point, screw both sides. Everyone in other major sports gets that it's business and gets back to work while you guys argue and shoot yourselves in the foot over and over again. You are the worst run organization in all of professional sports. Some people may think what i just said is over dramatic, but hey, those other leagues are playing, aren't they?

Seriously, you make the MLS look like a model sports league. Go screw yourself NHL.